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November 28, 2016 11:47 AM
Cubans will begin thronging on Havana's Revolution Square from today for a week-long commemoration of Fidel Castro, the communist leader who led a revolution in 1959 and ruled the Caribbean island for half a century. Castro died on Friday at the age of 90, a decade after stepping down because o...
November 28, 2016 11:46 AM
In China, about 350 people were evacuated by military personnel from Akto County in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region after a strong earthquake was felt last week that damaged several houses. <br/><br/>More than 20 army staff from the nearby military regiment arrived immediately after...
November 28, 2016 11:36 AM
Chinese police have formally detained nine people involved in a power plant construction project, in the east of the country, which collapsed last week that resulted in casualties of 74 people. The accident happened on Thursday morning in Fengcheng, in Jiangxi province, during work on a cooling towe...
November 28, 2016 11:36 AM
In Manila, Philippine police detonated a suspicious package they thought could have been a home-made bomb found in a trash bin near the US embassy today. The police chief in the capital said that there was no damage from the controlled detonation.<br/><br/>Senior Superintendent Joel Coro...
November 28, 2016 8:39 AM
In Switzerland, voters in a referendum have rejected an effort to hasten the process of phasing out the country's nuclear power plants. About 55 percent of voters turned down the initiative, with 45 percent favouring it in a vote that was part of the Swiss system of direct democracy giving citi...
November 28, 2016 8:37 AM
In Kuwait, Opposition groups and their allies have won nearly half seats for the 50-seat Parliament, election authority has announced the official results yesterday. The opposition and its allies won 24 seats. Safaa al-Hashem is the only woman to win one of the 50 seats. <br/><br/><br...
November 28, 2016 8:31 AM
A moderate intensity earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter Scale shook Nepal in the early hours today. According to the Nepal's National Centre for Seismology, the quake occurred around 5 AM at a depth of 10 km. It said, the epicentre was located at Solukhumbu district near the Everest region...
November 28, 2016 8:29 AM
US President-elect Donald Trump has attacked Hillary Clinton over her campaign's support for a recount of votes in the state of Wisconsin. Mr Trump reminded his Democratic rival that she had already conceded, and published remarks from the presidential debates in which she had urged an acceptan...
November 28, 2016 7:55 AM
In France, former Prime Minister Francois Fillon has won France's Conservative Presidential primary, beating rival Alain Juppe. In the first U.S.style primary contest for French Republicans, Fillon, won 68 percent of the vote against Juppe, another former Prime Minister. <br/><br/>H...
November 28, 2016 7:20 AM
In Syria, the army has announced that it had taken control of two residential districts of the rebel held eastern part of Aleppo. It said, the Government forces and its allies had taken full control of the Jabal Badro and Baadeen districts after capturing Hanano, a neighbouring residential district....
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